Clearly 120 years of baseball seasons gives you a lot to write about. Like most LA Dodgers fans my understanding of Dodger history comes almost entirely from listening to Vin Scully announcing games. This book helps fill in the gaps.

The book is an easy read and covers all of the main events and people in Dodger history. This book is for people who want to know the Dodger history basics (and there are a lot of basics to read about). The author really hasn't uncovered anything new to write about, but he does tell a good story.

The aspects that I most enjoyed in this book are the sections covering the early Dodgers (their uniform was originally green?, Babe Ruth was a Dodgers coach for a year?), the 50s, and the Koufax/Drysdale era. The pictures chosen are good, and the essay inserts from writers who covered the Dodgers are interesting.

On the other hand, I felt some years were completely skipped over. Not much may have happened in those years, but only a couple paragraphs? The tables of stats are interesting but would have preferred them in their own section. A bibliography would have been nice. Also, there is a section at the back listing what I guess is the author's All-Time Dodgers Teams, but there are several on the list that I didn't recognize from reading the text (Tom Daly, Al Lopez?)

Overall, if you are looking for that Dodger history primer, this fits the bill. It easily could have been longer, but would not have been as good of a read.